Learning Circle

Teamwork and Effectiveness


Objective:

1. To determine the word “Teamwork”.
2. To appreciate the effectiveness in working as a team in an organization.
3. To show the difference in working as a team and as an individual in an organization.

Learning Circle. . . 

The topic that was given to us is Teamwork and Effectiveness. So before we move on to our discussion, we grouped the class into two which composed the inner and outer circle. We gave each of them the pieces of the puzzle for them to form. The puzzle will serve as an introduction of our topic. We gave twenty minutes each to solve the puzzle. The outer circle first solved the puzzle and it showed the picture of hands holding together and the word “Teamwork”.

We ask them what they think of the relevance of the picture in the organization that we have. Each of the participants gave their ideas about it which to sum it up is that: Every organization must work as a whole, and to work as a whole, every member of the organization must cooperate and give their ideas for the progress and maintenance of their organization and to achieve one goal as well.

Secondly, we asked the participants of what do they understand about the word teamwork. Each participant has different understanding about teamwork. So, for further understanding, we chose two representatives from inner and outer circle and let them solve the puzzle themselves within twenty minutes. After the time, no one solved the puzzle. We asked the participants of what they think are the problem in solving the puzzle when the representatives have the same time as the first in solving the puzzle. Most participants from the inner and outer circle answered that: It is easier to solve the puzzle if they worked together. Furthermore, with teamwork, an organization may not only be efficient but effective as well. With the cooperation of both leader and members or general manager and managers, they will easily achieve their objectives, aims or goals and saves time too.


We regrouped the team and let them answer the following questions:

1. How do you find your group? Do you think, you have team work in your group?
2. How effective is your group in doing the activities such as solving the puzzle?
3. Is it important to consider to consider productivity in working as a group?
4. What do you think is the reason why people form group?
5. How effective the teamwork in an organization?

WHY PEOPLE FORM GROUPS?

We provide a question to the participants or to my employees why did they joined in our organization called PASOA?

But first we explained for their guide that…

..People form groups for several reasons sometimes because of personal satisfaction of needs including their security in which each employees become a buffer so they assured that the task will be done well. And also including social needs and high esteem needs and sometimes because of proximity and attraction it’s refer to the interpersonal interaction that can result to group formation in which leads in two facets that’s what we called a proximity and attraction
and sometimes because, of group goals people are attracted to it because they know that it is necessary to have a change for their improvement and their benefit. And sometimes because of economic benefit employees organized it because of their group benefit in which individual determines their wages by working and cooperating as a group.

STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT

Again as a facilitator we threw a question on how our organization started and how will it end? Their guide..
We have two models provided for group development the first one is the five stage model it’s refer to forming, storming, norming, performing, and adjourning. And the second one is punctuated equilibrium model it’s present group development in three phases the defining task, establishing goals and equilibrium.

CHARACTERISTICS OF A GROUP

Again we threw a question what are the characteristics of our group has posses? 

Their guide…

..So groups evolved when times past. They begin to administer certain characteristics such as; structure refer to the pattern of relationships among the positions constitutes a group structure. And they also possess status of hierarchy it’s refer to the position or rank of every employee it’s use to avoid over taking certain jobs. And another characteristics is roles it’s consists of the expected behaviors of the occupant of that position. And another one is the norms it’s generally agreed upon standards of individual and group behavior developed as a result of member interaction over time.

Our participants are all active in sharing their ideas about teamwork. As we discuss the topic, they also gave information about it and as a member of an organization, everyone is cooperating. Everyone listened to us and we have a good interaction in the organization.

To end up the interaction, and for the last activity of the participants in the learning circle, we asked them to give their idea in this question:

"Assume that you are in one of the two groups in an organization in a company and each organization are given a task to do. Unfortunately, the team you are in failed to do the task which really disappoints your boss. Will you transfer to the achiever team, or will stay in your team? Why or Why not?

Everyone shared their answer as well as the facilitators and this end up the topic, Teamwork and Effectiveness...

TEAMWORK - Team work is work performed by a team towards a common goal.
- It is working with the people in an organization with the same behavior to achieve one goal which the members of the organization adopt the behavior of the other member.


Facilitators:

(A2)

Niño, Cindy Mariz T.
Orquita, Joseph C.
Perez, Mark Patrick P.
Quitoriano, Krizzia Marie Ann G.

February 5, 2011 (Learning Circle)

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Cindy Mariz T. Niño                                                       

BSOAD- 3B

December 09, 2010

Hi good day!

I’m proud to pose my organizational profile. It is all about my comprehension in our organization. I’m proud to be a member of your organization that’s why it’s nice to create my own mission and vision.

Organizational profile

Mission:

The Kaugnay Organization Incorporated is to champion others to grow personally, professionally, emotionally and spiritually by using my compassion, my unique perspective, and my belief in others' inherent goodness, integrity, and enormous potential.  The Kaugnay Organization Incorporated students in BSOAD and other employee develop positive self-esteem and clarify their values on which to build a successful life.”

Vision:

The Kaugnay Organization Incorporated is people helping people reach more of their potential through well-rounded growth --personal, professional, emotional, and spiritual.

Organizational Environment
The Kaugnay Organization Incorporated is composed of 27 Bachelor of Science in Office Administration, Major in Computer Education students, in University of Caloocan City. The purpose of an organization is to accomplish the goals and objectives. Everyone have a choice to join an organization or action they believe in. Some people also think that the people in charge just try to get people to participate in something for ones in their lives. To help us know our self very well. To be act like a team leader and to have respect to the side of others belief. Our vision and mission was creating to help a future teacher like me to be responsible individual and good decision maker. To help us to believe that we will succeed and we have a determination and goal in our life.

Organizational Relationship:

The Kaugnay Organization Incorporated is governed by the cooperative collaboration with our boss. Have inspiring manager and staff. Have activities we would conduct every meeting. We should require giving a full cooperation and initiative in order to make a good evaluation regarding the tasks that our manager assigned to conduct. He has sets our direction, our rules and regulation and aim for our organization and we need to improve our self for us succeed.

That’s all

Thanks for cooperation and to be our instructor.

CHRISTMAS FOR SALE

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR

            Are the study of individuals and their behavior with in the context of the organization in a work place setting.  It is an interdisciplinary field that includes sociology and psychology communication and management and its all about individual’s perceptions and differences and learning capacities.

CONTINGENCY APPROACH

            Contingency is a uncertainly of occurrence in your approach. The best way to manage your organization is to be a role model for you to be able to achieve your individual goals.

MANAGING WORKPLACE BEHAVIOR

            When we talk about a work place behavior here in thePhilippines is different into other country especially in Germany. TheGermany has a lot of wireless technology that they can offer and the other countries use technological inventions that can effect into individual behavior and to have a global awareness and also a different gadget that can use in different situation such as experimentation and other inventions.

DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO EFFECTIVENESS

            Goal approach is the most widely used evaluation approach. It has a accomplish goals to reflect your individual personality and their achievement. System approach it can describes to an organization even if in external and internal. Inside and outside their country and the multiple constituency approach that will achieve their balance to satisfy the interests of the individual organization.

ENVIRONMENTAL FORCES

            The environmental forces that will help to be a successful change and create a powerful motivation to continue what you are doing. The process of this change is come from a good leader who exerts their effort just to have a strong organization. These are the leaders that can lead them to achieve their goal and inspire them to be strong and competitive managers.

ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE

            Is an idea in the field of organizational studies and management which describes the psychology, attitudes, experiences, beliefs and values, their personal values of an organization, their beliefs and ideas about what kinds of goals members of an organization should pursue the ideas about the appropriate kinds or standards of behavioral organization members should use to achieve these goals.

SOCIALIZATION

            It may provide the individual with the skills and habits necessary for participating with in their own society; to share their norms, customs, values, tradition, social roles, symbols and languages. Socialization means by which social and cultural continuity are attained.

DIFFERENCE IN POSITIVE CULTURE AND NEGATIVE CULTURE

            A positive culture can result a positive performance and a positive approach into a culture make’s effective and efficient in their individual abilities and perception, and the negative culture can make and organization can’t give a strong perceptions.

ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND TEAM BEHAVIOR

            Individual organization can result individual differences that involves their values and attitudes. The impact of this culture on employees provides opportunity and encouragement by form of stability.

SPIRITUALITY

            Is a devotion to spiritual things; holiness in broad sense. It can be found in the different experiences that can provide individuals directions and can provide mutual feeling and understanding of individual. They support and connected in to the other people. The spirituality benefits in addition to improve effectiveness and to attained and work by integrity and enthusiasm.

SPECIFIC PRACTICES AND PROGRAMS

Anticipatory Socialization

1.  Recruitment using realistic job previews.
2.  Selection and placement using realistic career paths.  Recruitment programs are directed toward new employees, those not know in the organization.

Accommodation Socialization

1. Social as well as technical skills training.  These are in invaluable in the breaking-in stage. Training programs are necessary to instruct new employees in proper techniques and to help them develop requisite skills.
2. Performance Evaluation – in socialization, it provides important feedback about how well the individual is getting along in the organization.
3. Assigning demanding bosses – is a practice that seems to have considerable promise for increasing the retention rate of new employees.

GLOBALIZATION

            The process by which regional economics, societies, and cultures have become integrated through a global network of political ideas through communication, transportation and trade, globalization is usually recognized as being driven by a combination of economic, technological, socio cultural, political and biological factors. The term an also refer to the transactional circulation of ideas and languages or popular culture through acculturation.

CROSS – CULTURAL MANAGEMENT

It is the study of the behavior of individuals in organizations around the world. It is important because in cross-cultural management, we are dealing with organizational behavior within countries and cultures. We are not just talking about an organization’s culture or behavior but we are also comparing it to the other organization’s culture within and outside the country. It tends to extend the study of domestic management to encompass global and multicultural considerations.

GLOBAL MANAGERS

            Developing a mindset for global competitveness

The global skills managers must learn, practice, and refine to deal with a changing world.     -the global skills that the managers must learn and practice are the following:

1. Global Strategic Skills- Wherein the global managers operating in a globally shifting work environment will need a working knowledge of international relationships and foreign affairs, including global financial markets, international law, and exchange rate movements.
2. Team-building Skills- the increased complexity of global operations will require more use of work teams, including culturally diversed group.  The need for  global  teamwork is obvious  when considering how accounting and auditing are conducted in various parts of the world.   Teams should not ignore or minimize     either cultural differences or the difficulty faced in trying to develop and manage multicultural teams.
3. Organization Skills- In addition to multicultural diversity, managers must consider individual differences when organizing firms, units and jobs.  Minimum requirements for managers operating in loiobally shifting world would include:

o                                            Creativity and inventiveness in designing organizations and jobs.

o                                            High tolerance for ambiguity and cultural differences.

o                                            Ability to coordinate finance, marketing, operations managements, and human resources interdependencies.

4. Communication Skills- Managers will need to be able to communicate with diverese group of people.  The communication task would be easier if managers possessd multilingual skills and high levels of of cross-cultural awareness and sensitivity.  Lack of communication skills would result in misunderstanding.
5. Transfer of Knowledge Skills- The increased competitiveness troughout the world has placed special emphasis on technological advances for prosducts and process innovations.  This emphasis has increased the need to transfer knowledge.  Learning about the practice, technique, or approach in one country that can be transferred elsewhere is a skill that managers can apply on a regular basis. 
Characteristics of culture can influence the behavior and attitudes of employees.            

 -a culture is a set of values, attitudes, norms and beliefs shared by majority of inhabitants of a country.  These become embodied in the laws and regulations of the society as well as in the generally accepted norms of the country’s social system. People in the society learn what to notice and what not to notice, how to behave with each other and how to handle responsibility, success and failure.

Hofstede's original cultural dimensions. 

    -Geert Hofstede, a dutch researcher who studied how cultures in countries are similar and different. His research has resulted into four dimensions explaining differences and similarities in cultures these are the: 

1. Uncertainty Avoidance- Concerns the degree to which the people are comfortable with ambigous situations and with the inability to predict future events with accuracy.

2.  Masculinity- Feminity- High masculinity in a culture designates assertiveness, dominance and independence.  High feminist in a culture designates interdependence, compassion, and emotional opinions. 

3. Individualism- Collectivism-Individualism emphasizes pursuits of individual goals, needs and success.  Collectivism emphasizes group needs, satisfaction and performance.